We’re back with this amazing game. “My legs are weak, and this is YOUR game!” Howie says. “I don’t want this on me at all, so you tell Sarati when you want her to open the case.”
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$300,000Not the best time for that, but the board still favours the player. “Everything in life has a tipping point,” says Howie. “Is this the tipping point? The offer now is...”
Wow

. Words fail me here. Courtney’s husband says she should counter at
$450,000. Courtney wants to counter at a half-mill, and that’s exactly what she does.
“Why did you do that?” Howie asks worriedly. “She wants me gone,” replies Courtney.
The Banker does indeed want Courtney gone. However, at this point in the game, if the counter offer is refused, Courtney would be forced to play on. She has an equal chance of leaving with either a million dollars or just a hundred bucks.
The phone rings, and the Banker gives Howie her response. That response is...
DEAL!!!Yes, we needed the extra-large font and extra exclamation marks here because Courtney Schlaud just became Deal USA’s biggest regular game winner! I thought for sure the Banker would decline that counter offer, but nope! She accepted it! That is absolutely insane

. It’s also the first time this has happened on Deal 2.0.
Time is running short, so Howie opens case 4, revealing
$400,000 inside. Had the counter offer been refused, Courtney would have picked case 16 next, and that case had the million inside. Case 21 held
$100.
Courtney played a phenomenal and gutsy game, and as the old adage states, to the victor go the spoils. Those spoils are
half a million dollars. Yes, you read that correctly.
Holy boats, that was a hell of a game! I can’t believe what I just witnessed.
Deal USA returns next week with only one new episode. I say that because the other one features a waste of a person with sub-zero intelligence making an ass of himself on national television. Boy, am I glad I don’t have to recap that one. Until then, good night and good deals.